[dance-tech] Call For Proposals: DRHA2021: DIGITAL MATTERS: DESIGNING/PERFORMING AGENCY FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE, Humboldt University, Berlin: 5 - 7 September 2021

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 13:44:27 +0000

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Reminder Call for Proposals

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The Anthropocene highlights a fundamental fracture in contemporary culture
between what we know and how we act. In the public sphere, this contradiction
can be summarized by the overwhelming sense of apathy in the face of growing
complexity and crisis. In scholarship the Anthropocene has been tied up with
the experience of the unthinkable by thinkers including Timothy Morton, Donna
Haraway, and Amitav Ghosh. Yet, the current COVID-19 pandemic—which as a crisis
also exemplifies the human impact on and a reshaping of environments—challenges
the pervasiveness of the key concepts of abstraction and unthinkability.
Instead, the pandemic has turned the Anthropocene into a concrete, intensely
lived, globally shared experience. In doing so, the pandemic asks us to reflect
on and, more importantly, experiment with the borders between material and
digital spheres and the shifting experiences they currently render.

Taking place from September 5-7, 2021 in Berlin, the 25th Digital Research in
Humanities and Arts conference invites contributions and interventions that
focus on such transfers and interactions between digital and natural
environments. Digital Matters takes on the challenge to explore new material
and multi-species agencies, forms of embodiment, and interactions between the
performing arts, the humanities and the natural sciences that engage the sense
of relationality and expanded scale that the Anthropocene affords. We welcome
contributions that create a sustained encounter between designers, hackers,
performers, artists, and philologists to examine how these emerging ways of
communicating and creating proximity and solidarity across distance can shape
new responses to conceptualising life in and beyond the Anthropocene. We would
like to generate new perspectives on any of these three interrelated spheres:

  *   What do we make of the various encounters between digital and embodied
materialities across the cultural, creative, and scientific spectrum?

  *   How do we make perceivable the invisible dimension of environments in our
cultural practices?

  *   How do we create new forms of agency to match the altered realities of
the Anthropocene?

DHRA 2021<http://www.drha.uk/2021/> offers a creative platform for
transdisciplinary exchanges in a variety of formats: it will be part academic
conference, part curated programme of digital performances, workshops, and
installations that seek to break new ground in how artists, digital makers and
researchers can share knowledge and engage with each other.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Nicholas Johnson (Drama Department, Trinity College Dublin)

Prof. Claudia Mareis (Institute of Experimental Design and Media Culture,
Basel/ EXC Matters of Activity, Humboldt University Berlin)

Prof. Joanna Zylinska (Department of Media, Communications and Cultural
Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)

Key Roundtable on the Non-Human in Artistic Practice and Research with
design/researcher Kim Albrecht (Harvard metaLab/Potsdam University),
artist/researcher Siobhan Leddy (Institute for Theatre Studies, Free University
Berlin) and Prof. Annette Jael Lehmann (Harvard metaLab/Free University Berlin).

We are seeking submissions on topics including, but not exclusive to, the
following:

  *   Performing the Anthropocene across the arts
  *   Sonic environments and the environmental politics of listening
  *   VR, AR, and AI in performance
  *   Renegotiating liveness in performance
  *   Creating digital narratives of scale: micro & macro-levels
  *   Configuring the non-human in digital and natural environments
  *   Negotiating scarcity and waste with digital media
  *   Designing nature in the digital/virtual sphere
  *   Digitality in protest/activism
  *   Indigenous knowledge and digital media
  *   Visualizing scientific data in artistic practice
  *   Exploring Object-Oriented Ontology
  *   Possible futures and post-pandemic transformations of artistic practice

Please submit a 300-word abstract together with a short bio (ca. 75 words) and
indicate the preferred format (digital or F2F) for your paper or presentation
(15min), digital media provocation (up to 15min), workshop (30/60min), or
alternative creative interventions (15min) on the theme of the 2021 DRHA
conference. To submit your proposal, please visit our
website<http://www.drha.uk/2021/call-for-paper/>. All proposals will be
reviewed and selected by a peer-review process. Deadline for submissions: May
15th, 2021. Currently, we are planning this conference as a hybrid event in
Berlin with social distancing measures in place. If the development of the
pandemic does not permit any form of gathering, we will shift to a fully online
event.

Conference Organizers:

Dr. Lindsey Drury (EXC 2020 “Temporal Communities”, FU Berlin)

Dr. Ramona Mosse (EXC 2020 “Temporal Communities”: “Viral Theatres” Volkswagen
Foundation Fellow, FU Berlin)

Dr. Christian Stein (EXC Matters of Activity, HU Berlin)

This year’s DRHA conference is hosted by the interdisciplinary Excellence
Cluster (EXC) Matters of Activity<https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/> at
the Humboldt University and also supported through partnership with the
Excellence Cluster (EXC) 2020 Temporal
Communities<https://www.temporal-communities.de/> at the Freie
Universität-Berlin and the “Viral Theatres” Research Project, funded by the
Volkswagen Foundation.

Prof Sue Broadhurst,
Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professor
Performance and Technology,
Department of Arts and Humanities,
Brunel University,
London,
UB8 3PH, UK
Email: susan.broadhurst@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Chair of Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) http://www.drha.uk/
Joint Editor of Body, Space & Technology Journal - https://www.bstjournal.com/
Joint Editor of Palgrave's 'Series in Performance and Technology'
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14604

[dance-tech] Call For Proposals: DRHA2021: DIGITAL MATTERS: DESIGNING/PERFORMING AGENCY FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE, Humboldt University, Berlin: 5 - 7 September 2021

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